Shoe polishing device



0. M. DYER, JR

SHOE POLISHING DEVICE Feb. 9, 1960 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed April 19, 1957 Of/o M. Dyer, Jr.

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The primary object of my invention is to provide a shoe polishing device which may be operated by a foot of a person thereby obviating bending over and using and soiling the hands and which is of simple inexpensive construction and is economical to use.

These together with other objects and advantages which will become subsequently apparent reside in the details by polishing means in said cover The polishing means comprises a pair of right and left side rotary brush units 31, 33 including a pair of parallel cylindrical brushes 35, 37 extending horizontally longitudinally over the platform 1 in parallel spaced relation wardly extending shafts 43, 45.

A pair of larger diameter circular brushes 47, 49 on the cores 39, 41 at the rear ends of the brushes 35, 37 are provided to overlap in the rear of a shoe for polishing the heel end of a shoe. Slots 51, 52 in the platform 1 accommodate the disk brushes 47, 49.

For polishing the upper front toe portion of a shoe a rotary top brush unit 53 is provided comprising a horizontal, cylindrical brush 55 extending between the brushes 35, 37 above and parallel therewith and which also includes a core 57 fast on a forwardly extending shaft 59. The brush unit 53 is provided for insertion portions of said bars free ends 67, 69 overlapping and pivoted on a tal stub-shaft 71 in form and said bars 63, 65 extend in V formation from said shaft 71 for vertical swinging thereon. Apertures 73 in the bars 63, 65 for selective insertion of the shaft 71 therein provide for adjusting the bars 63, 65 to vary the spacing between the right and left brush units according to the width of a shoe.

The shaft 71 extends horizontally forwardly from a supporting block 75 supported by through the platform 1 for vertlcal screw feed adjustmeans.

Pulleys 87, 89, 91 of like shafts 43, 45, 59 in the yoke idler pulleys 93, 95

diameter are fixed on the bars 63, 65, 79. Smaller A swiveled idler line with the top A cable 1431 is right and left The cable is around the right front Wheel the left front wheel 12.

wound counterclockwise 11 and clockwise around upwardly from the idler pulleys 93, 95 to the idler pulley 97 from opposite sides thereof and around which and the pulley 91 said cable is looped.

In operating the device a person foot through the opening 29 onto the the brushes 35, .37 of the right and left brush units 31, 33 with the toe portion of the shoe under the. brush 55 of the top brush unit 53 and slides the footvbackwardly on the platform 1 to compress the bulb 81 so that a desired quantity of shoe polish is sprayed onto the brushes after which the foot is slid forwardly to releasev said bulb.

. The apparatus, is then moved forwardly and backwardly by foot pressure to rotate the front wheels 11, 12 forwardly and backwardly whereby said wheels alternately wind up the cable 101 and exert pull thereon alternately in opposite directions thus causing the brush units 31, 33, 53 to rotate-in one direction and then in the opposite direction. During this operation the frictional engagement of the brushes35, 37, 55 with the sides and top of the shoe causes said brushes 35, 37 to ride up or down depending on the direction of rotation thereof and the brush 55 of the top unit 53 to move laterally in opposite directions over the top of the toe portion of the shoe depending on the direction of its rotation, this action of the brushes 35, 37, 55 swinging the yoke bars 63, 65 upwardly and downwardly and the yoke bar 79 from side to side. During this action of the yoke bars 63, 65, 79 the idlers 91 roll in the loops of the cable 101. The foot may be moved back and forth on the platform l to engage the brushes 47, 49 and 61 for. polishing the tip of the toe portion of the shoe and the heel end as desired.

Stop pins 109 may be provided on the block 75 to limit swinging of the yoke bars 63, 65, 79.

A raised longitudinal portion 111 may be provided on the platform to elevate a shoe between the brushes 35, 37 so that said brushes will polish the sides of the sole and heel.

As will now be manifest, the brushes of the device are driven by rolling contact of the ground wheels 11, 12 with the ground and movement of the entire device forwardly or rearwardly with the operators foot. in fixed position relative to the device, whereby the duration of rotation of the brushes is not limited by movement of the operators foot relative to the device.

The foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the invention. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled .in the art, it is not desired to limit the invention to the exact construction and operation scribed, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and inserts his or her platform 1 between 93, 95, 97 and the pulleys 87, 89,.

equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the invention as claimed.

What is claimed as new is as follows:

1. A shoe polishing device comprising an elongated platform having front and rear ends, a pair of supporting ground wheels for the platform rotatably mounted thereon at opposite sides thereof and connected together for rotary travel in unison forwardly and rearwardly in response to forward and rearward movement of the platshown and deform by a foot positioned on the platform in the longitudinal center thereof with toe portion of a shoe on the foot facing forwardly, a pair of rotary cylindrical brushes above said platform extending parallel longitudinally thereof at opposite sides of said longitudinal center for engaging and polishing opposite sides of a shoe and having axial shafts, a pair of bars journaling said brushes for rotation in opposite directions respectively pivotally mounted on said platform for upward and downward swinging to permit said brushes to ride upwardly and downwardly on a shoe in response to rotation of the: brushes in opposite directions in engagement with a shoe, and means drivingly connecting said wheels to said brushes to rotate the same in opposite directions in re-- sponseto travel of the wheels forwardly and rearwardly respectively comprising a pair of driven pulleys fast on: said shafts respectively, a pair of idler pulleys on-said. bars spaced from the driven pulleys, and a cable trained around the idler pulleys and looped around the driven pulleys and terminally fixed to and wound in one direc-t tion around one ground wheel and in the opposite direc tion around the other ground wheel and whereby the brushes are rotated by rolling engagement of the ground wheels with the ground and movement of the entire device forwardly or rearwardly, bodily, with the operator's: foot in fixed positionrelative tothe device, so that duration of rotation of the brushes is not limited by movement of the operators footrelative to. the device.

2. The combination of claim 1, and a pair of larger; diameter circular brushes on one end of the pair of cylindrical brushes and rotatable thereby in overlapping. relation to the heel portion of a shoe to polish said portion. References Cited in the tile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,335,388 Raginia Mar. 30, 1920: 1,437,231 Ewaszczyszyn Nov. 28, 1922. FOREIGN PATENTS 503,218 France Mar. 11, 1920*. 

